“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious.""Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.""Nobody ever does.”

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”

“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”

“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”